_Lisa Marek – Public Portrait – @fatcatartstudio

Website: www.fatcatartstudio.com
Flickr: fatcatphotobuzz
Twitter: @fatcatartstudio

I love design, typography  and all things beautiful – especially in nature. My earliest memories of designing were as a kid, sitting on my grandparents porch redesigning the Sears Catalog. My lifelong dreams include managing a magazine as creative director and shooting photography for National Geographic.

I have worked in the field of graphic design for about 20 years now, having self-taught myself for the most part. I have worked in Minnesota after graduating from Augsburg college (1991) with degrees in German, Art Studio and Music Performance. I started out in a print shop and spent part of my career working beside pressman designing 1-4 color work watching us go from negs and plates to all digital. I then graduated to an ad agency, working for bigger clients and then into corporate America, where I worked on a creative team for many years enforcing and creating brand standards along with print, web and advertising.

As the years went by, I found myself enjoying photoshop work best and a need to be more creative. I left the corporate world to follow another long-time dream of starting my own design business. I opened Fat Cat Art Studio in 2006 and have been blessed with many great projects (logo design, trade show displays, food packaging and design, photography for product promotion, marketing kits, business collateral, etc) that have allowed me to learn and travel to some great places. I thrive on creative challenges and consider myself an experienced digital artist, graphic designer and photographer.

One of my passions is preserving memories and helping people to do that through the digital medium as well as traditional mediums.

Stop by one of my sites or links and say hello. I’d love to hear you what you have to say!